koukla carolyn

I forgot to post last week’s #15 as I was way too busy. Here is this week’s entry. I drew my mug of tea while waiting for it to cool enough to drink.

Lined notebook paper is not my ideal choice, neither is blue highlighter. This is supposed to be a tree outside a window and the blue part is supposed to be the cutains. I love the trees once they start losing their leaves because their structures are so nice.

On another note…I’m hoping that I can find some time to do some drawing this week. I need to find the time anyhow, since I have a commission that needs to get done by Christmas!

My purse. I tried doing two versions again—blind and sighted. I was on my lunch break at work so I couldn’t spend as much time on it as I would have liked.

For this week I drew an old box of thumbtacks that I found buried in a drawer in my Grandparent’s house. The lettering was pretty tough, but fun. Afterwards, I sketched it while looking and I came up with this:

I bought these shoes last week and boy am I glad I did! The soles are encased in rubber and the uppers are totally waterproof as well. I’ve already christened them in the mud.

This icon was a gift to me when I was born and I have always kept it in my bedroom ever since I can remember.

This is a little metal fish dish with a huge mouth. My Yiayia and Papou keep spare coins in it. I practiced drawing it from two different perspectives. In real life it is not really blue and it has a lot more detail in it, but I like the results I got.

I hope you can recognize who this is supposed to be. If you can’t, this is Michelangelo’s David. I think the nose is pretty good. My Yiayia and Papou have a painting of David in their living room and I drew it the other day. One of these days I’m going to draw it for real, actually using my eyes.

This is a collections of a lot of small drawings—things around my bedroom. I drew my feet, my stereo speakers, votive candles, my cell phone and charger, my makeup mirror, my sketchbook and my windowsill. Some things are sideways. I drew this with a varsity disposible fountain pen. I love the color of the ink, but the pen skipped a lot. When I looked at my drawing afterwards, I didn’t get consistent lines.

This is supposed to be a woman. Believe me, she was very beautiful in the photo, but not quite in my drawing!